A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, ...

How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for ...

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play a larger role in determining how long people live.

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Despite major advances in genetic testing for breast cancer risk prediction, death rates remain disproportionately high among ...